How to Control the Speed of Test Execution in Selenium IDE?

The Selenium IDE offers us functionality to control the speed so if we want to control the speed of any test execution in the Selenium IDE, we will follow the following process/steps:

Step 1: Install the Selenium IDE on your system then click on the Selenium IDE icon to open the extension.

The icon looks like shown in the image above. After this move to the next step.

Step 2: Now press the record a new test in a new project option to create a new project, this is where we will store our actions and control the speed.

Step 3: After clicking on the create option, we will need to name our project, I have named it “gfgtest1” but you can simply replace it with any name you want. after this click on the “OK” button.

Step 4: In this step, we need to give the base URL, this is the URL in which we will perform all our actions, so copy your target URL and paste it into this section, for example, here I choose the w3wiki.org URL as the base URL, after this click on the START RECORDING option.

Step 5: After this step a popup window of Google Chrome or any of your default browsers will appear which will be powered by the selenium extension, in this tab whatever actions we perform will be recorded.

Step 6: As we can see in the above video, once we start the execution after recording, it starts working as an automation tool to copy our actions. however, the speed in this current tab is at the fastest rate available in the Selenium browser.

Step 7: We will now learn how to reduce the speed of test execution, for this, we select the option named “Test Execution Speed” by default, it’s at the fastest rate but we can drop it down to slower from the drop-down menu like in the following video:

Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) was developed by Shinya Kasatani back in 2006 in Chicago. The Selenium IDE allows us to record all our actions on websites. Selenium also acts as an automation tool and it’s mainly used for the development of web applications where we can check for errors.